Last night i uploaded a new version(0.9) of ebookmerge to portage. Ebookmerge is a tool for manage ebooks in gentoo per user. All app-doc/ebooks-* has been masked pending removal.
With ebookmerge you can:

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Where is app-doc/ebook-pygtk going? It’s not available on LiDN, but your Portage mask of ebooks is blocking the existing ebuild for it. Please unmask it or get it on LiDN so it can be accessed through ebookmerge.

Alex, the app-doc/ebook-pygtk ebuilds get the ebokos from the LIDN webpage, and ebookmerge retrieve the list from the same webpage. So the book is not in the LIDN webpage the app-doc/ebook-* will not work.
I dont have any relation with LIDN so you can write them directly.

Why remove ebooks from portage? Why make per-user copies? What’s the deal? For god’s sake, can you imagine 50 or more users with their own copies of every single book? Please, either unmask the ebuilds or fix your script to install single copies of ebooks, system-wide.

ebookmerge.sh -r
* Dowloading list from http://lidn.sf.net…
cat: books_download.php: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `books_download.php’: No such file or directory
* Dowloaded. Use -l for a list.

less ebuild in portage mean a fastest portage :). So what happen dif one user just need python ebooks, and other user perl ebooks?
If you install all the ebooks system-wide the startuop devhelp app will be very slow.

Reply to Olivier:

Sorry i dont know any dev of the LIDN project, and i dont know what happen right now with it. I will try to write an emil to them.
About the mirror.. i sadly doubt it.